The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.

Unless you don't use google groups ...

Right, it depends on how you access USENET. In many cases, you can set it up your email, etc., anyway you want.

-- sam | Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ:

Important: Anything sent to the email address in the message header above is ignored unless my full name AND either lasers or electronics is included in the subject line. Or, you can contact me via the Feedback Form in the FAQs.

The OP "message" is actually warning text that is displayed inside the web posting interface of Google. Looking back through google ye see great posts of panic by Google Groupers on wondering how on earth Google could have done this awful thing to them....

:-)

Sam, can you try placing a single space after the two dashes?

i.e. "-- "

Thunderbird is repeating the whole of your wordy sig when I reply, which is a bit dumb on it's part ....

On 2/20/2009 4:43 AM Adrian C spake thus:

and unless you use a completely phony "from:" address, as I do.

-- Personally, I like Vista, but I probably won't use it. I like it because it generates considerable business for me in consulting and upgrades. As long as there is hardware and software out there that doesn't work, I stay in business. Incidentally, my company motto is "If this stuff worked, you wouldn't need me".

- lifted from sci.electronics.repair